Optical-Pulse-Injection-Induced 40 GHz Photonic Frequency Multiplication in Erbium-Doped Fiber Laser

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The generation of a 40 GHz regeneratively amplified and frequency-multiplied optical pulse train from an erbium-doped fiber ring laser is demonstrated. This is achieved by seeding a 1 GHz gain-switched Fabry–Perot laser diode and detuning its repetition frequency to coincide with the harmonic resonant cavity mode. The peak power of frequency-multiplied erbium-doped fiber lasers (EDFL) pulses increases from 80 mW to 230 mW as the modulation level of the Fabry–Perot laser diode (FPLD) increases from 18 dBm to 30 dBm. The pulsewidth and peak power are 10 ps and 5 mW at a repetition rate of 40 GHz. The EDFL longitudinal mode frequency fluctuation is within $\pm 2.5$ kHz during 2 h. The frequency-multiplied EDFL pulses exhibit relatively low phase noises of $-95$ dBc/Hz and $-120$ dBc/Hz at offset frequencies of 10 kHz and 1 MHz, respectively. The associated timing jitter of the EDFL pulses exponentially increases from 0.6 ps to beyond 5.8 ps as the frequency multiplication order increases from 1 to 40.
2004-08-15